The evening world. Newspaper, August 3, 1918, Page 1

“Tf It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ Bonds TWO ‘CENTS. Conretest, 1918, by Co. (The ‘New York W Che |“ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ The Pree Tublishing orld). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AvousT 3, 19 FRENCH ARMY ON AISNE: READY TO CROSS THE VESLE $1.25 GS THREAT PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON CORPORATIONS People Will Not Tamely, but Insist Gas Method Inquiry. | Submit | on | REPRISAL THRE ATENED, I, Company’s Own Witnesses) Reveal Plan to Exploit the Consumers. | By Sophie Irene Loeb. Q. And now what is going to be done about saving the 80-cent gas rate for the people, which The Eve- ming World fought nd main- tained until now the Hughes threatens it? A. Every single point of Referee Hughes's which allows the Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to charge any old price will be fought to a finish, according to Corporation there will be no gas Musks battle ts on. Q What does thie mean? A. An upheaval and investigation of this gas company, and perhaps other gas companies, that will not down until the people are shown how such publio utilities ‘enormous profits in nd now use the war for decision contentions Counsel Burr, and when the A. John Counsel Q. What is the next step? P, O'Brien of Corporation will make application to have the dif- ference between 80-cent gas and the | price charged by the company im- pounded in # depository to await the result of an appeal from the Hughes | decision. @ What is the Brooklyn Borough Gag Company going to do? A. It an-| nounced yesterday at the hearing| before the Public Service Commi sion that it is going to charge $1.25) for gas, | Q. Why Is this company going to) charge $1.25? A. Because it thinks| tt can under the Hughes decision. | Q. Has it ever applied to the Pub- Service Commission for a raise in ates? A. Not since the 1913 reduc- sn from $1 to 95 cents. Q. Why doesn't It operate at 95 cents now as agaifist $1.25? A. Be the company thinks it can| 1,000 feet of go cordin he cor Why has from 1913 to the cents, running at praling to Put mission? A. Because ageress of th says they had “f r WONDERFUL PAST, PRE AND FUTURE “EXPENSE Q. ut su n 1 ore preser Na out ap an ne compar n Q. What | are mostly Q. Does thi to charge $1 pay for what the company is goir do in the future? r Q. What are some o (Continued on Second Page.) 25 to make th HYLAN INSPECTS IN PERSONAL TOUR Points Out Remedies for Faults That Cause Temporary Sus- pension of New System. Mayor Hylan started out alone to- day just as the rush hour on the sub- ways was dwindling to get first-hand impressions of conditions af elther | end of the Times Square-Grand Cen- tral crossover of the new “H” system which caused dangerous approach to panic during the downtown and up- town rush hours yesterday. The Mayor made several sugges- tions for changes which he said he would lay before the Public Commisston. Several alterations in the temporary structures had been made but the Mayor noted pomeibilities for further changes. The fact that Saturday's crowd of subwayites normally is greatly re- duced, coupled with increased krowl- edge through bitter experience, served to avert to-day a repetition of yes- terday’s scenes of distress at the two crucial stations. Forty men of the Public Service Commission, some of them with meg- aphones, reinforced several hundred guards of the subway as guides at both stations, Overnight a multi- tude of signs giving direction out of the maze had been posted. Twenty- five policemen were stationed at both ends of the shuttle line; there had been more, but their services were not needed. The suspension of the shuttle ser- vice becomes effective at midnight to- night. WILSON FOR HEAVY. TAX ON ALL WAR PROFITS Service here, a German general and sev- eral other German officers were made prisoners dressed in pink pajamas, so completely were they ourprived. ~ NOW UNDER | First Corps, Commanded | Liggett, in Centre of Aisne- Marne Fighting. 1,300,000 SENT ABROAD. July Troop Shipments Above 300,000 — Rainbows —_ De- feated Prussian Guards. WASHINGTON, Avg. 3 shing, jen. Per as a result of recent transfers of American d ons which had been h, direct com- brigaded with the Britis 1,000,000 men under his mand, Chief of Staff March told news now has paper correspondents to-day Major Gen. manding the Hunter Liggett, com Ist American Corpa, is in active charge of that corps on the centre of the Allied drive in the Aisne-Marne Mareh sald. The American div forming this corps are salient, Gen. ions serving con- tiguously on this sector. The number of American divisions actively engaged on this sector has been increased to eight, ing the First, Third Fourth Regulars and the 26th, 82d and 42d National Guard. now inelud- Second, and | Gen, March announced that it was the 424 (Rainbow) Division which met and defeated the Prussian Guanis during the present week. Total embarkation of American troops during July broke all records it | mans had been driven back without time to bury their dead and the Ger- une bodies tay so was tm (Continued on Second Puge.) US. ARMY OF araTTie GEN, PERSHIN EIGhT DIVISIONS "DRAFT AGES FIXED Army | 28th, | 1,000,000 GERMANS NN DRIVE Northwest of Rhei AT181045 YEARS | INBILL BY BAKER) scssos as Vesle River itneen 3.—Burning Muizon withdrawal of the German forces is Be Fismes is Those Under a) 21 Would Called Last for Overseas Service. in flames and there are ¢ | northwest of that town Fires ure illuminating the skie everything as he retreats. | counted during the course of the nij French cavalrymen are on the V WASHINGTON Rake Aug. 3. announced Secretary that he to-day would recommend to Congress exten sion of the draft ages to a minimum |Vesle have been destroyed The retirement of the force: of eighteen years and a maximum of | forty-five yearn, | | a very rapi . A bill embodying his recommenda- |Pears to be of a very rapid character the same time the bill will be tntro- | duced in the House. ‘The bill gives the President discre- | tion to call those below twenty-one| ~ for training purposes in this country | Jor to call them last if tt becomes necessary to use them ove seas Announcement that the are eighteen to forty-five Y eabes | much surprise in view of the opposi- tion Congress bas to going below] twenty-one. President Wilson's idea ts to have| those between eightecn and twenty- one receive not only military but vo- cational education Provost Marshal General Crowder To the east of Rheims French covery of ground near St. Hilaire. LOOTS AND BURNS LUMBER SCHOONER ————— was annour officially, morelyag stron : " * ve ‘ongly advocated making all ' Has Carefully Studied Present Sys-| than 300,000 men having been shipped. |men betwoon eighteen and forty-Ave|SUbmarine’s Crew Take Pro- =} H The grand total embarked to the end i} tem and Also English 80 subject to some sort of service. If} z ssel—Me pe Cee of July haa passed the 1,300,000 mark. |the bill is enacted, aa propased, nt wilt| Yisions From Vessel—Men er Cent. Levy. Tho provious high monthly record | empower Crowder to extend hie work Aboard Saved WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Prealdent) was for Juno when 276,00 men were|or pght order to a much broader de. | Wilson has let it be known to members) sent overseas. . ; gree than al present | WASTPORT Me. Avg. 3—A il of the House Ways and Means Com-| Discussing the fighting, Gen. Marca!” Gnief of Staff March told members| Joud of smoke risin lay from mittee, which is framing the new) id that official despatches covering lot the Senate Military Committen to-|ine turnin. hulk et Britinh eight bilon dollar revenue bill, that he|th® battles to A | owed *he | day that there is no present danger! gchooner Dornfontelr mile é % re ax on warlpresent front runni practical of a shortage in man power to keep) caren ar ( 1 v1 and ts interested in a heavy tax on na Neat catA eh : p rth of Grand Manan | Th President has given care paral to the sie an rdre ¥U-lthe American arm filled up. entrance o the ia of Fundy profita. bs adds * * leys, the next defensive line of the seta i i ful study to the present tax system and) igmy At. times the advancins marked the scene of th ‘ poses a fiat tax of 80 per cont. on FUCH jing Latur daspate | lantie Const os ‘The Wane end Meane SubOlmmit-|NA¥e indicated that the Veale-Arin St. John. for a port south, was] e oaaee couaider the tax on luxu.|#9® may have been turned already a , 5 on OER nh tee, named to consider the tax on luxu-/H#ne may have been tu ye | . preccaien uni Gater esterday ries, decided today to recommend a 10 Peer reel #4 the wei n and | Revolt Against Bolsheviki Drives|by a German submarine, her crew| | per cont. tax on retail prices of Jewelry ted armies still is the destruc “4 ma Fr Iriven into their dory and the vosse ks, meerschaum and amber pipea|of the enemy's army, Gen. March | Soviet Troops From Rus- |driven into t otf aor ie i vy 1 mak ladies’ weeh bags,|said, The maximum retreat of the | sian Port. robbed and burne towne : Str ea.8 mean oo Aiea guraavacs three houra the men reached Gran which om $2 to $2,000, enemy up to Aug, 2 measured sit en] KANDALASKA, 1 Lapland, | sfanan Island. gold-headed valuable canes, | miles, the total length of the Aisne-| aug 4—iLiy the Presa.) ; ‘ B when embelished with or-| Marne salient having been reJuced|A revolution against the Holsheviki and J one A od A allver OF (precous! george ty-four to forty-|in favor o es B. Dogwe and a va ther luxurle ie Arch ; he of the Allies | cope leeaale CATCH GERMAN GENERAL 4 araeniet ie detachment wa Tard F tart frou yin ‘ ra wom! AND SEVERAL OFFICERS = =» aniline winger ome ike nt ud w-en-Tar waters od bw 4 bow IN THEIR PI PINK PAJAMAS «: env that it /KILLS BABY SWATTING FLIES for any 1 1 army to gather the number of gun | POOONIC, Te Ly Aug. 3.—Desconding | tom ita réskitesy oy ONDON, Aug. 3—In a recent |and ghella that were abandoned by|from a chair which she had mounted Pie in ° t I t Italian advance in Albania, | tye Germans in thoir retirement to swat flies in her home, Mrs. Alfred dory the crew. of wh r according to reports received ‘The message added that the Ger-|% Davids stepped on the leg of her|the Germans ransack their daughter Mary Elizabeth, aged six-jramove a good sized stock teen months, lost her balance and fell visions, Tho Germans wasted no tor upon the child. |pedoes, shells or bor at vet th The beby Sled thie imurni: was an only child. The moth: ® serious condition, Py Reet Bre wistiie hasta iationtine ‘that the craft wes oti) adoat OPS NOW UNDER PERSHIN “Circulation Books Open to All.’” MOUTH OF POCKET CUT TO 14 MILES GERMANS DESTROY BRIDGES | _ IN FLIGHT FROM VESLE RIVER; | SET FIRE TO |French Cavalry Reaches the River North and East of Rheims. ind St. More and Jonchery, north and northwest of Rheims, tions will be introduced in the Senate |Of fighting, certainly not in the area southeast of Soissons, and it is unlikely Monday by Senator Chambertain. at| that any large captures of prisoners will be reported. | BOAT NEAR NAINE Norld, — 18. 10 PAGES SET FIRE TO 40 TOWNS; ;Allied Troops Drive in From Rheims on East and Soissons on West, as Americans Gain in Centre—Ger- man Flight From Soissons So Hur- ried They Could Not Set It Afire. PARIS, Aug. BASE AT FISMES ms—French Gain 3.—Throughout last, night the Allies \continued to advance toward the Vesle, the French War Office announced to-day. East of Soissons the French reached the Aisne between Soissons and Venizel. French advanced forces have reached the River Vesle and are preparing to cross the stream. The Germans are continuing their villages in the area north of the | retreat toward the River Aisne. { ' (The French advance points directly toward the important heights | at the western end of the Chemin-des-Dames, which are less than Thierry, indicate that a further intended. Che important centre milagrations in two villages to ¢ « everywhere, the enemy barning than forty contlagrations were ht. esle River between the Champigny All the bridges over the} five miles north of Venizel. The London report that the French are \ at Braine places them within seven miles of Fismes. | } the German Crown Prince now There not been a great deal} ap. Skirting the Aisne from Pommiers to Venizel, Allied troops are reaching the regions of Serches, Couvrelles and Cerseul, about seven miles west of Fismes. Further east the Allied progress also continues. Cavalry pa- trols have reached certain points along the Vesle toward Cham- pigny and Joncherry, north and west of Rheims. West of Rheims the regions of Thillois, Gueux, Rosnay and Montaxin have been attained. [The simultaneous advance of the Allies toward Fismes from the east and west indicates that the gap at the top of the Soissons Rheims pocket has been reduced to less than fourteen miles.) Many prisoners were taken by the French at Soissons, which was occupied at 5 o'clock Friday evening, one hour after the Ger- } has forces have made an important re- RMAN PRESS WHINING AS WAR ENDS 4TH YEAR | BUT HAIG 1S JUBILANT Finds Papers All Mel- ancholy—British Commander Says Americans Restored Balance, Reventlow MSTERDAM, Au count {mans had been driven from the suburbs. Those of the garrison not iss aioe peo se - . captured escaped by fleeing northward. the anniversary of the fourth year It seems the enemy did not expect to be chased from Soissons. < spies ~ ested Sakari eee There were no indications that preparations had been made for re+ of the war is marked ino large |tirement and no fires were discovered anywhere. * — ok = AoA) ee isi On the left Friday French cavalry and tanks kept in close resignation, melanch and | pursuit of the enemy and inflicted heavy losses. 4 atinm whieh rig: vr” AMERICANS NEARING FISMES; | wwe wi sone went os soe | CAPTURE COHAN AND CHAMERY, or ly ated dy m Shoei" | WHERE QUENTIN ROOSEVELT FELL rep es ORE Heavy Guns Are Being Trained by U. &. Crisis Past, Haig’s Message. Artillerymen on the Germans as er ar ape amet re They Retreat Northward. } : WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 3 | (United Press).—The Americans continue to advance all along 2 the centre of the Soissons-Rheims salient. Cohan and other towns t and villages in that region are now in our hands, placing Ameri« Ke ; cans six miles from Fismes, W T y Heavily destructive artillery fire is combing the roads over sus Ai idtara't which the Germans are retiring. The Germans continue to blow _ unr \snerican Up ammunition dumps and burn material as they retreat. bh t ry , f ue cet Ai (Cohan, six miles east and slightly north of Fere-en-Tardenols, is a mile north of Coulonges, the last village officially announced ag by oo thee dletrtet} The steady stream of Americans arriving In France has restored the balance,” | Flamce bas been brought within sae Of _